Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are still too many people who want work and can't find a job," said Labor Secretary James Mitchell in a blunt talk last week to civic leaders in the industrial town of Granite City, 111. Mitchell is keenly aware that production has bounced back from the recession faster than employment. Result: highest January unemployment (4,724,000) since World War II's start, including 9.3% of the work force jobless in the most densely industrial state, New Jersey...
...were the British alone eating crow. The Greeks had to swallow their cries of enosis (union with Cyprus), and the Turks their talk of "partition or death...
...week, a lethargic stock market suddenly rallied. Conservative Italian newspapers congratulated the nation's politicians on their good sense. Ostensible cause for the rejoicing: the appointment of 68-year-old Antonio Segni as Italy's new Premier. A more fundamental cause: the fact that after months of talk about an inevitable drift toward socialism, Italian politics had taken a sharp right turn...
...along with such talk, he has an engaging ability to kid himself, and his concerns. Once he saw a nature movie about a herd of brown deer with white markings in whose midst appeared a mutation-a white deer with brown markings. "You see," purred the narrator, "he's playing right along with the other deer and they don't even seem to notice the difference." Said Belafonte with a laugh loud enough for the whole theater to hear: "Boy, they're well integrated." In his playful moods, Belafonte is also fond of fabricating stories about himself...
...market was almost there a month ago, but fell back. At that time it had hit 601.74 on an intraday basis, then retreated to the 590s. The quick push-pull led the experts to talk about the possibility of a sharp selloff ahead, of "technical corrections," "testing lows," etc., etc. After that, it did indeed slip some 30 points. But it resumed its climb, with hardly a thought to the worriers...